Tuesday, November 28, 2017

A federal judge on Tuesday rejected a lawsuit from an
official who claims that she, and not President Trump appointee Mick
Mulvaney, is the rightful director of the Consumer Financial Protection
Bureau (CFPB).
Judge Timothy Berry of the U.S. District Court of the District of
Columbia declined to grant Leandra English a restraining order to bar
Mulvaney from serving as the CFPB’s acting director.
The ruling clears the way for Mulvaney to run the CFPB until a
permanent director is sworn in or English successfully appeals the
decision.
Trump last week appointed Mulvaney to temporarily lead the CFPB until
the lawmakers confirm his pick to replace Richard Cordray, who resigned
as the agency’s director on Friday.

Thursday, November 16, 2017

“Well, all I’m saying is, we will permit an independent
examiner of the writing…We will allow all of this to be asked and
answered at the hearing,” Allred said.
“But that’s not a flat denial, Gloria,” Blitzer said.
“Well, all I’m saying is, we’re not denying, we’re not admitting,
we’re not addressing,” Allred said. “We will not be distracted.”
Blitzer asked why Allred needed a Senate hearing and would not just permit an independent handwriting expert to take a look.
“Well, uh, all I can say is we want it done in a professional setting
to the extent possible, that’s the only setting in which people can
testify under oath,” Allred said.

Allred also would not say if her client would take a lie detector test. This is smelling worse all the time.

Wednesday, November 8, 2017

A statement from former Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid insisting
that “a convicted felon is not going to be able to serve in the United
States Senate” has suddenly disappeared from the website of the Senate
Democrats as jurors deliberate in the federal corruption trial of Sen.
Bob Menendez (D-N.J.).
On Nov. 1, 2008, Reid issued the statement after Sen. Ted Stevens
(R-Alaska) was convicted on corruption charges. The verdict came down
just before his 2008 re-election bid — which he narrowly lost. Pointing
to Stevens’ conviction, Reid wrote that “the reality is that a convicted
felon is not going to be able to serve in the United States Senate.”

James Comey changed his original draft to read “extremely careless.” This smells like a political decision. "Grossly negligent" would have required an indictment. The FBI has lost all credibility.

Newly reported memos to Congress released Monday
showed that language was softened between an early draft and the final
copy of former FBI Director James Comey’s statement closing out the
Hillary Clinton email case.

Originally Comey accused the former
secretary of state of being “grossly negligent” in handling classified
information in a draft dated May 2, 2016, but that was modified to claim
that Clinton had been “extremely careless” in a draft dated June 10,
2016.

Comey stuck to that modified language when he announced in July 2016 that there would be no charges against Clinton.

Saturday, September 16, 2017

A wall of drones, virtual sensors or border agents could be cancelled on
day 1 of a new Democratic Presidency. Also, it would require new
funding every year. If we can always have a Republican President who
values border security and a GOP controlled Congress, maybe it would be
OK. Can you guarantee that? A significant physical wall would require
funding from Congress to tear down. Even a minority GOP could likely
obstruct that. Albeit, if democrats held power for a long time, they
could degrade a wall by letting it fall into disrepair.

One other
problem with not having a physical barrier is it allows illegal
immigrants to step onto US soil before they are apprehended. Then, they
can claim refugee status (say they fear for their safety in home
country) and we have to give them a hearing before an immigration judge.
If Democrats were in charge, this would be mostly liberal judges. Obama
found a way to go around even this minor inconvenience to illegal
immigrants. Instead of taking them into custody until the hearing, he
had the Border Patrol issue the illegal immigrants summons and then turn
the loose into the US. Of course, up to 90% failed to show up for their
immigration hearing.

Nothing but a significant physical structure will
work long-term. Democrats and the GOPe know this. That's why they oppose
it.

Wednesday, August 30, 2017

The Trump administration moved Wednesday to reimpose work
requirements for Americans on welfare, revoking an Obama-era policy that
had urged states to apply for waivers exempting the poor from having to
show they were either getting job training or looking for work.
Requiring
work was a key part of the 1996 welfare reform law enacted by a GOP-led
Congress and signed by then-President Clinton, and Mr. Trump’s move
restores the law as written.

Wednesday, May 31, 2017

The committee has subpoenaed the National Security Agency, the
Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Central Intelligence Agency for
information about what is called “unmasking.” Republicans on the
committee have been pushing for a thorough investigation of how the
names of Trump campaign officials became exposed in classified
intelligence reports based off intelligence community intercepts.Those subpoenas seek information on requests made by former national security adviser Susan Rice,
former CIA Director John Brennan and former United Nations Ambassador
Samantha Powerfor names to be unmasked in classified material. The
three didn’t personally receive subpoenas, the people familiar with the
matter said. Mr. Brennan, Ms. Rice and Ms. Power didn’t immediately
respond to requests for comment.

Wednesday, May 24, 2017

Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz threatened the chief of the U.S. Capitol
Police with “consequences” for holding equipment that she says belongs
to her in order to build a criminal case against a Pakistani staffer
suspected of massive cybersecurity breaches involving funneling
sensitive congressional data offsite.

Saturday, April 29, 2017

Newly minted Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue is
expected to unveil a new rule Monday aimed at giving schools more
flexibility in meeting federal nutrition standards for school lunches.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced Friday that
Perdue and Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kan.) will make the announcement at the
Catoctin Elementary School in Leesburg, Va., where they are expected to
eat lunch with the students.
Republicans have long been trying to dial back the standards that
became a pillar of former first lady Michelle Obama’s initiative to curb
childhood obesity in the U.S.
Roberts introduced legislation with Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.)
last year to give schools two more years to meet new reductions on
sodium, but the bill never passed.
Renewed efforts to ease the federal standards came as disappointing news to some advocates.

Monday, April 10, 2017

United needed to bump 4 people who had already boarded off their overbooked flight so four of their employees could fly. No one accepted their crappy vouchers. So, they selected four random "volunteers." One man wasn't willing to give up his seat. So, United brought security on board and beat the shit out of him. This is what flying has come to in America. You get fondled by TSA and flight crews have more power over you than prison guards would if you were an incarcerated felon. I have given up flying for pleasure trips. I drive or stay home. If I have a flight I have to take, United will be my last choice. It's time for the sheeple to stand up.

Thursday, March 16, 2017

You claim your account was compromised, but you have't apologized to Donald Trump or the millions who voted for him as of this post. If you want my business again, you need to apologize, identify the culprit and file a lawsuit against them for damaging your brand name. If you don't, you are telling us you are really OK with the tweet. Also, that Obama crony you hired, Robert Gibbs, should hold a press conference and apologize.

Wednesday, March 8, 2017

I am not angry with Ryan or Trump or any Republican, but I can't support this bill. It fails to bend the cost curve down in any significant way and when it fails democrats, the media (I repeat myself) and voters will blame Republicans. The problem is twofold. Insurance is meant to cover catastrophic costs, not be pre-payment for routine costs. This means we need catastrophic plans and medical savings accounts that could be subsidized by tax deductions or some credits. If people can save enough in their accounts, they should be allowed to withdraw the extra for anything the want. This would cause people to try to hold down costs. The second problem is pre-existing conditions. They can't be covered under any sane plan. You can't let someone buy car insurance after they wreck their car and get it fixed. It used to be most company plans covered pre-existing conditions as long as the new member had previous coverage. This should be the standard. If someone doesn't have insurance now, they are breaking the law. Why should we reward lawbreakers by allowing them to buy insurance at a small markup when they have a serious problem. Also, insurance companies should be allowed to sell across state lines and Americans should be allowed to buy cheaper drugs from Canada, Mexico or other countries after some quality verification tests. We should get rid of mandated coverage for certain things in insurance policies and let insurance companies and the free market decide the plans. Medicaid should be rolled back to where it was before Obamacare. It was meant to be a safety net, not substitute insurance for able-bodied adults. Drug regulations need to be reduced to speed new drugs to the market and lower costs. If revenue is needed, we should tax what we want less of, such as policies that pay routine medical costs (like Obamacare policies) and don't promote cost savings, ER visits, high priced drugs that don't save lives, MRI's and Cat scans, ect...It would be better to let Obamacare burn than to pass the current RINOcare bill the House is considering. Obamacare is crashing and burning and democrats own it. Rates are skyrocketing and choices are becoming slim and none in many areas of the country. In two years voters will really revolt and Republicans will be able to pass a much better bill. Some Democrats might even support it.

This story is now breaking, but it appears that the Obama administration asked the secret FISA court for approval to wiretap Trump Tower back in the spring or early summer, but they were denied. They went back in October and the court gave them approval. If anything really significant had been found, you can bet there would have been a leak right before the election that would have driven a stake through the heart of the Trump campaign. Since there was no leak, we can guess nothing illegal was found. We can add the NSA to the alphabet agencies former President Obama weaponized against his political enemies. Of course, just because nothing illegal was found that doesn't mean nothing politically useful was found, but the question would be how to use it. Obama signed a last minute EO allowing the NSA to share more information with other intelligence agencies such as the FBI.

WASHINGTON
— In its final days, the Obama administration has expanded the power of
the National Security Agency to share globally intercepted personal
communications with the government’s 16 other intelligence agencies before applying privacy protections.

The
new rules significantly relax longstanding limits on what the N.S.A.
may do with the information gathered by its most powerful surveillance
operations, which are largely unregulated by American wiretapping laws.
These include collecting satellite transmissions, phone calls and emails
that cross network switches abroad, and messages between people abroad
that cross domestic network switches.

The
change means that far more officials will be searching through raw
data. Essentially, the government is reducing the risk that the N.S.A.
will fail to recognize that a piece of information would be valuable to
another agency, but increasing the risk that officials will see private
information about innocent people.

By
contrast, the 12333 sharing procedures allow analysts, including those
at the F.B.I., to search the raw data using an American’s identifying
information only for the purpose of foreign intelligence or
counterintelligence investigations, not for ordinary criminal cases. And
they may do so only if one of several other conditions are met, such as
a finding that the American is an agent of a foreign power.

However,
under the rules, if analysts stumble across evidence that an American
has committed any crime, they will send it to the Justice Department.

The
limits on using Americans’ information gathered under Order 12333 do
not apply to metadata: logs showing who contacted whom, but not what
they said. Analysts at the intelligence agencies may study social links
between people, in search of hidden associates of known suspects,
“without regard to the location or nationality of the communicants.

Did Obama gave his plants in several federal agencies access to metadata of who called who from Trump Tower? If so, this would explains the recent leaks most which have been initially published by the Washington Post.

U.S. intelligence reports during the 2016 presidential campaign showed
that Kislyak was in touch with Flynn, officials said. Communications
between the two continued after Trump’s victory on Nov. 8, according to
officials with access to intelligence reports on the matter.

Trump is right. This is brings back memories of Watergate.

How low has President Obama gone to tapp my phones during the very sacred election process. This is Nixon/Watergate. Bad (or sick) guy!

Wednesday, March 1, 2017

Mr. Beshear, as a Kentuckian, I watched your speech in expectation you would represent KY with dignity, even if I disagreed with your opinion. I am part of the two-thirds of Kentuckians who abandoned you and your party and supported President Donald Trump. I thought you got off to a good bipartisan start by declaring yourself as a "proud Republican." Unfortunately, the prepared remarks show you merely misspoke. Your speech went downhill from there. You tout the fact 500,000 in Kentucky got health insurance under the ACA. I guess that is true if you consider Medicaid to be health insurance. It's actually medical welfare. Most of that 500k got on Medicaid. Only about 75,000 got insurance through the exchanges and most of them are being subsidized heavily on the backs of taxpayers. One in three Kentuckians now get medical welfare. That is hardly a record to be proud of.

After President Trump gave a very presidential speech, where he attacked no one, and reached out to Democrats, you launched partisan attacks on the man two-thirds of Kentuckians support. Democrats in congress set on their hands for most of President Trump's speech. Many refused to applaud even when Mr. Trump was advocating things they support. This made them look small in comparison to our President. Your partisan attacks made you look small to. I expected better from you.

And as a Democrat, I believe that if you work hard, you deserve the
opportunity to realize the American dream, regardless of whether you are
a coal miner in Kentucky, a teacher in Rhode Island, an autoworker in
Detroit, or a software engineer in San Antonio.

Under your administration and Democrats control of Washington, the "American dream" of many coal mining families were utterly and completely destroyed. Although you have spoken out in support of coal mining in the past, your actions to support President Obama and the Democratic Party's 2016 nominee Hillary Clinton prove the dreams of coal mining families are nowhere near the top of your list of important things. You should be shamed to even mention them. Former President Obama promised to destroy the coal industry and he nearly succeeded. Several major coal companies went bankrupt under his and your leadership and over 83,000 coal jobs were lost. That's not a dream, Mr. Beshear. That's a nightmare.

Monday, February 27, 2017

The Saudi's gave $1 million to the McCain Institute and you know how mush John McCain loves the Saudis.

McCain is facing questions about his ties to an eponymous nonprofit, after Bloomberg reported the Saudi government had donated $1 million to the nonprofit’s fundraising arm...

The McCain Institute for International Leadership was created in December 2012, with an $8.7 million donation in unused funds from McCain’s 2008 presidential campaign...

McCain regularly attends events and fundraisers hosted by the McCain Institute. His wife, Cindy McCain, is on the institute’s Human Trafficking Advisory Council, working with the nonprofit to raise awareness for her main policy issue. Many of McCain’s longtime political allies sit on the nonprofit’s board of directors. Tax records show a longtime McCain fundraiser, Carly Eudy, maintains the McCain Institute Foundation’s financial records.

In the video embedded below, McCain again claims he has nothing to do with the McCain Institute and they only use his name.

McCain's claim is about as credible as Hillary's Clinton Foundation claims.

If you think it's a good idea to #ProtectTransKids by making high school showers co-ed, you must be a 15 year-old boy. No sane adult would think this was a good idea, but we are talking about policies instituted by liberals.

AP) — Transgender students on Wednesday lost federal protections that allowed them to use school bathrooms and locker rooms matching their gender identities, as the Trump administration stepped into a long-simmering national debate.The administration came down on the side of states’ rights, lifting Obama-era federal guidelines that had been characterized by Republicans as an example of overreach.Without the Obama directive, it will be up to states and school districts to interpret federal anti-discrimination law and determine whether students should have access to restrooms in accordance with their expressed gender identity and not just their biological sex.“This is an issue best solved at the state and local level,” Education Secretary Betsy DeVos said. “Schools, communities and families can find – and in many cases have found – solutions that protect all students.”

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., on Sunday warned against taking seriously
comments his Senate colleague John McCain of Arizona made on Saturday,
in which the Arizona lawmaker comparedPresident Trump's actions toward the press to "how dictators get started."
"The thing is, I don't agree with his analysis and applying that
to the president," Paul told Jon Karl, guest host of ABC's "This Week."
"Everything that [McCain] says about the president is colored by his
own personal dispute he's got running with President Trump
and it should be taken with a grain of salt, because John McCain's the
guy that's advocated for war everywhere. He would bankrupt the nation."

John McCain recorded a Tokyo Rose-style propaganda message - See more at: http://www.trunews.com/article/john-mccains-1969-tokyo-rose-propaganda-recording-released#sthash.u3Wr6B6l.dpuf

John McCain once recorded a Tokyo Rose-style propaganda message. Audio here.

Thursday, February 9, 2017

The White House is finishing an executive order that would instruct the Pentagon to send Islamic State detainees to Guantanamo Bay.The Obama administration notably refused to send ISIS fighters captured in the fight to the detention facility, but for President Donald Trump, it’s imperative to take high-level radical Islamic terrorists out of the fight, The New York Times reports.For some, the order could function as a de facto tripwire because it could allow federal judges to rule on whether the war against ISIS is actually legal, since Congress has declined to offer any explicit authorization. Instead, the Obama administration has relied on war authorization granted in 2001, saying that the fight against ISIS is just a continuation of the fight against al-Qaida and the Taliban.

Most voters agree that Christians living in Muslim-majority countries
are mistreated for their religion. But Democrats are more likely to
think Muslims are mistreated in America than to think Christians are
persecuted in the Islamic world...

Fifty-six percent (56%) of Democrats, however, believe most Muslims in
this country are mistreated, a view shared by only 22% of Republicans
and 39% of voters not affiliated with either major party. Fewer
Democrats (47%) think most Christians are mistreated in the Islamic
world, compared to 76% of GOP voters and 64% of unaffiliateds.

A Missouri sixth-grader wearing the iconic red baseball
cap made famous during President Trump’s campaign became the center of a
school bus scuffle after students ganged up on him for his choice of
headgear.
In cellphone video of the incident obtained by News 4, students en
route to their Parkway school can be heard arguing with the 12-year-old
over his “Make America Great Again” hat and some of Trump’s proposed
plans.
“You want to build a wall?” one student yells in the clip. “You want to build a f–king wall?”
Things quickly escalated from there, the unnamed 12-year-old said.
At one point, he just got so frustrated he pushed me,” the
sixth-grader told the news station. “And then he kept hitting me and
backing me up by the window of the bus, and so I just had to push him
out.”
A spokesperson for the Parkway School District said the altercation
was investigated and that all students involved have faced
“consequences.”Keep on reading…

Thursday, February 2, 2017

The Republican-controlled House on Thursday took its first steps
toward strengthening gun ownership under President Donald Trump, moving
to scrap a requirement for background checks for disabled Social
Security recipients mentally incapable of managing their own affairs.
The regulation, issued in the final months of
President Barack Obama's term, is one of a handful congressional
Republicans are rolling back, knowing they have a new ally in the White
House. The Senate is poised to scuttle an Obama rule preventing coal
mining debris from being dumped into nearby streams.
"In my home state of Kentucky and others across the
nation, the Stream Buffer Rule will cause major damage to communities
and threaten coal jobs," said Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell,
R-Ky.

Lawyers for disgraced ex-pol Anthony Weiner are
desperately trying to convince the feds not to slap him with a child
pornography charge that could send him to the slammer for at least 15
years, according to a report Tuesday.
Weiner has been under investigation since it was reported last year
that he sexted with an underage girl in North Carolina, and defense
lawyers have been meeting with Manhattan federal prosecutors in a bid to
minimize his potential punishment, sources told the Wall Street
Journal.Keep reading…

Most voters approve of President Trump’s temporary halt
to refugees and visitors from several Middle Eastern and African
countries until the government can do a better job of keeping out
individuals who are terrorist threats.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds
that 57% of Likely U.S. Voters favor a temporary ban on refugees from
Syria, Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen until the federal
government approves its ability to screen out potential terrorists from
coming here. Thirty-three percent (33%) are opposed, while 10% are
undecided.
Similarly, 56% favor a temporary block on visas prohibiting residents
of Syria, Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen from entering the
United States until the government approves its ability to screen for
likely terrorists. Thirty-two percent (32%) oppose this temporary ban,
and 11% are undecided.

Friday, January 27, 2017

Washington (CNN)Two
senior administration officials said Thursday that the Trump
administration told four top State Department management officials that
their services were no longer needed as part of an effort to "clean
house" at Foggy Bottom.

Patrick
Kennedy, who served for nine years as the undersecretary for
management, Assistant Secretaries for Administration and Consular
Affairs Joyce Anne Barr and Michele Bond, and Ambassador Gentry Smith,
director of the Office for Foreign Missions, were sent letters by the
White House that their service was no longer required, the sources told
CNN.

According to Ashley Judd, “I’m not as nasty as your daughter being your favorite sex symbol.” I am embarrassed for her home state of Kentucky. Judd should stay in Hollywood and never return to the Bluegrass State.

According to a new poll conducted by GovExec.com
and the independent Government Business Council, 28 percent of federal
workers say they are or at least might be "considering leaving the
federal service" because of Donald Trump's election. This is actually up from 25 percent who said the same in February when asked about the possibility that Trump might be elected.
Fourteen percent said that yes, they are considering it, and the
same share said "maybe" they are. Of this combined 28 percent, just
over half said they are "eligible for retirement and [might] retire
earlier than planned," meaning they might be serious about this.